§ The result
Tengai leads SeekOut by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Tengai, filed under Screening, finishes on 42 and SeekOut, filed under Sourcing, on 34, 8 points apart. SeekOut takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Tengai, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (SeekOut 35, Tengai 55) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (SeekOut 35, Tengai 50), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage Tengai holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
Vendor profile
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Tengai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SeekOut | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · Tengai 50
2.3 weighted points to Tengai
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Tengai 45
2.0 weighted points to Tengai
8% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Tengai 55
1.6 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · Tengai 58
1.6 weighted points to Tengai
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · Tengai 33
1.3 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · Tengai 33
1.0 weighted points to Tengai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · Tengai 28
0.4 weighted points to Tengai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 55 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 42 (F) | -8 | -7.6 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | SeekOut | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 37 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tengai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 42 for Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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